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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Year of Jubilee"”.
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The Year of Jubilee and Old Testament Ethics: A Test Case in Methodology
… thesis argues that the “ethical triangle” model of C. J. H. Wright’s OT ethics, slightly adjusted, offers a convincing account of the Jubilee, which is here analysed from the perspective of each of the triangle’s vertices: theological, social, and economic. The meaning and paradigmatic value of …
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A Fresh Start Comes from God
The clean-slate acts of the Hebrew Bible, i.e., the Year of Jubilee in Leviticus 25 and the Šemittah Year and the Law of Slave Release in Deut 15:1-18, are a part of the tradition of clean-slate acts in the ancient Near East. In these acts, those who have become indebted and have loss land and …
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The Embodied Promise: How the Hebrew Covenants Correspond to the Corporal
The book often called the Hebrew Scriptures or the Old Testament, appropriately called the Tanakh, consists of a creation poem (the "Heptameria") followed by the grand narrative of development of Israel, which itself is composed of many shorter stories. The Tanakh might be described as a sequence …